Recently, the mayor of Iowa City revealed that his community was exploring becoming a sanctuary city. The Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper reports the following: Iowa City Council members plan to explore ways to better protect diverse populations and undocumented immigrants through city policy, and to do that are revisiting details of a five-year-old conversation about …

As students prepare to return to class, Priorities for Iowa is encouraging Iowans to do their homework on Patty Judge’s troubling record As Iowa students and their parents prepare for back-to-school season, Priorities for Iowa is calling on Iowans to do their homework on Patty Judge’s record of failing Iowa pupils. An analysis of Patty …

Priorities for Iowa, Inc. today released video footage of Patty Judge showing her true partisan colors at a rare campaign stop in Osceola, Iowa. During her speech, Patty Judge states, “I’m a Democrat. And I’m as partisan as anybody going.” Judge’s website, Twitter and Facebook made no mention of her appearance in Osceola at “Thursday …

With just over two weeks until the primary, Iowans who deserve to know where candidates stand on the issues are wondering, “Where’s Patty?” In today’s Cedar Rapids Gazette article, Iowa State University political science professor Steffen Schmidt “said Patty Judge’s campaign ‘may be the lowest key Senate race in the U.S.’” Perhaps that’s because there …

On Jan. 26, 2016, the Iowa House passed tax coupling legislation 82-14 to prevent taxes from going up on Iowa farmers, small business owners and teachers. Shortly after its passage, the Iowa Senate indicated they would not consider the bill, which would have meant a tax increase for tax year 2015. [T]he Iowa Senate will …

On March 11th, Priorities for Iowa, Inc. executive director Jimmy Centers joined WHO Radio’s Simon Conway Show to discuss our efforts working to stop a tax hike on Iowa teachers, small business owners and farmers. Listen to the segment with Jimmy and guest host Dave Price of WHO-TV:

Friends, After months of holding staged events with hand-picked supporters, Hillary Clinton is finally going to have to do something she fears – actually answer questions! We’ve compiled a list of questions we think Hillary Clinton needs to answer during tomorrow’s debate: How can Americans trust you when over 400 emails from your secret email server contained classified …

From the Des Moines Register: At 10:19 a.m. on Sept. 20, 2012, the committee held a hearing on a backlog of disability claims and reports of problems with mental health care and stewardship of VA funding, congressional records show. The roll call shows Braley didn’t attend. Braley’s aides said he skipped it to attend a 9:36 a.m. Oversight and …

From the Des Moines Register: More than 24,000 Iowans could lose subsidized health insurance if courts ban the government from helping pay for policies purchased on the federal government’s online marketplace, Iowa’s insurance commissioner said. About 29,000 Iowans purchased 2014 health insurance policies on that system before the March 31 deadline. Of those, 24,485 reported …

At a time when VA hospitals are struggling to deliver care, Bruce Braley seems to be struggling to attend committee hearings. From the Cedar Rapids Gazette: We found Braley attended four of 19 hearings of the full Veterans’ Affairs Committee, which has about 25 members. This means he missed 78 percent of those full committee …